Sony Pictures has revealed a new Barbie release date. Originally set to be released on May 12, 2017, the live-action film will now arrive in theaters on June 29, 2018.
Sony Pictures, Mattel and Parkes+MacDonald/Image Nation’s Barbie movie had landed a leading lady in Amy Schumer. Schumer will play a misfit living in a land of perfect Barbies who comes to the real world where her being/looking different turns into an asset.
The Barbie movie marks the second collaboration between Sony Pictures and Mattel, which are currently developing a film adaptation of Masters of the Universe, based on Mattel’s popular action figures.